Autophagic protein Beclin 1 serves as an independent positive prognostic biomarker for non-small cell lung cancer.

Beclin 1, a key regulator of autophagy, has been found to be aberrantly expressed in a variety of human malignancies. Herein, we employed immunohistochemistry (IHC) to detect the protein expression of Beclin 1 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and paired normal adjacent lung tissues, and analyze...

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Main Authors: Weihua Zhou, Caifeng Yue, Jinyun Deng, Ronghuan Hu, Jie Xu, Long Feng, Qiongyu Lan, Wenfeng Zhang, Dexiang Ji, Jianbing Wu, Quentin Liu, Anwen Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3829868?pdf=render